Reply to post: Re: update the downgrade?

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Ian 55

Re: update the downgrade?

DEC Rainbow.

A Z-80 for the software you know and which works, and a 8088 so you can say you're up to date.

Main problem, apart from the price, was that the 8088 hardware wasn't PC-compatible, so while it ran MS-DOS, the programs had to go via it for everything rather than hitting the hardware directly.

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